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A New Model of Political Reasoning
Why politics and international relations “seem” to be driven by power/strategies in some conditions but “seem” to be attached to values/beliefs in other situations? Based on findings in (political) psychology and international relations, the book builds a new political reasoning model: a two-layered motivation-heuristic complex. The model grasps the internal mechanism that drives the co-existent and dynamic relationship between material and ideational considerations in making political choices/phenomena diverse and evolving across situations and periods. Applied to the case of China and human rights, the model helps understand several questions that attract those who are interested in the topic: e.g., the roots and contents of strategic and conceptual factors that continuously influence China’s human rights idea/policies; if, why and how the strategy-ideational relationships in such idea/policies evolve across periods; and the role that China's national security condition and external pressure play during such evolving relationships.
A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology
Translations of the Yi jing into western languages have been biased towards the yili ('meaning and pattern') tradition, whereas studies of the xiangshu ('image and number') tradition - which takes as its point of departure the imagery and numerology associated with divination and its hexagrams, trigrams, lines, and related charts and diagrams - has remained relatively unexplored. This major new reference work is organised as a Chinese-English encyclopedia, arranged alphabetically according to the pinyin romanisation, with Chinese characters appended. A character index as well as an English index is included. The entries are of two kinds: technical terms and various other concepts related to the 'image and number' tradition, and bio-bibliographical information on Chinese Yi jing scholars. Each entry in the former category has a brief explanation that includes references to the origins of the term, cross-references, and a reference to an entry giving a more comprehensive treatment of the subject.
In Pursuit of the Great Peace
Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven's will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literati began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism.
Ode to Mysticism
Ancient Classics, Modern Revival One of the Four Poems of the ancient times, the classical text of Xuan Ji Fu is now translated with detailed line-by-line commentaries for easy absorption and reading. A definite must-have reference for any serious student or practitioner of Xuan Kong Feng Shui.
The I Ching
How the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the world The I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of various cultures throughout East Asia. Jesuit missionaries brought knowledge of the I Ching to Europe in the seventeenth century, and the American counterculture embraced it in the 1960s. Here Richard Smith tells the extraordinary story of how this cryptic and once obscure book became one of the most w...
Stalk Divination
This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from fourth century BCE China called the Stalk Divination Method. The manual presents a competing way of interpreting trigrams to the Zhouyi (popularly known as the I-Ching) that was lost over time.
San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Da Gua Compendium
A comprehensive guide to San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Da Gua The San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Compendium is a detailed book that integrates the studies and methodologies of both Qi Men Dun Jia and Xuan Kong 64 Hexagrams. This book also includes all the detailed references and application methods to the San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Da Gua system all packed into ONE single volume for an easy read. The Compendium is an ideal source for committed students, practitioners and even masters wishing to study or teach San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Da Gua
Xuan Kong Purple White Script
Xuan Kong Purple White Script The Best Kept Secret of Xuan Kong Feng Shui Despite its unresolved pedigree, the classical text of Purple White Script has made it to the haloed list of mandatory classics for advanced Xuan Kong studies. This book is the result of well-researched and clearly written dissertation on the Script. And for the first time ever, it is made available to English-speaking readers, making this book a definite must-read for Feng Shui enthusiasts everywhere. What You`ll LearnAn important reference material for anybody who wants to take their Xuan Kong Feng Shui studies to the next levelBoosting your knowledge of Chinese Metaphysics through an ancient Feng Shui studyBringing ...
Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World
This is a study of the development of the Yijing in China from the earliest times to the present. Drawing on recent scholarship in both Western and Asian languages, the author offers a fresh perspective on almost every aspect of Yijing theory and practice.
The Chinese Metaphysics Compendium
Embrace A Privileged Wisdom With over 1000 pages, The Chinese Metaphysics Compendium is by far, the most pivotal guide to everything you need and want to know about Chinese Metaphysics. In fact, it is a compilation of all the essential formulas and applications that govern the study of Chinese Metaphysics known and practiced today. Definitely an indispensable go-to reference to students and master practitioners alike.
